Does that make me crazy?

Hello world! So alot of my friends have been getting these blog things lately so I figured..hey if everyone else is doing it..can't be SUCH a bad idea! We'll see how often I update this and if any of it is actually worth reading along the way but I hope you enjoy it!

Basically, this summer has (so far, it's not over yet!) been one of the best and definitely most memorable ones of my entire life! I met an amazing group of girls who love Jesus as much as I do and who love just having fun and traveling around the country..especially seeing this fantastic band we like to call Hawk Nelson! A lot of people think I'm crazy for seeing them so many times (and so many more times to come, I'm sure) but they really have meant so much in my life, though they don't even know it!

In the past and especially in this past year, I hung out with people and did things that, if I had continued, would have eventually led me on a path to destruction. I really wasn't enjoying myself but I didn't know where to turn. Obviously I have grown up in a Christian home so I know the right things to say and do, but I had strayed so incredibly far away from Him. To make a long story short, I really don't know what pushed me to go see Hawk with these amazing girls on May 3 of this year. It was the day after school got out and I somehow got an invite a couple months prior to that date to go to Indianapolis to see them, even though I barely knew these people I was going with. Something inside of me changed at that show and I realized what I'd been doing wrong and knew exactly (not to say I have all the answers..) what I needed to do to fix it. I came back from that weekend and started reading my Bible every morning again (something I'd neglected to do for a LONG time). I then knew it was God who had brought me together with these amazing girls I now consider to be my adopted sisters (lacking in siblings by birth as I am..). It was no small coincidence that I decided to go with them that day, starting a wild and crazy ride that has continued until now and I pray will continue for a long time! In fact, I just went to my 10th Hawk show! Double digits baby, yeah!! (I still have a long way to catch up but it was an accomplishment for me...)

We just got back from seeing Hawk in Akron, OH and at the last minute, decided to go again the next day to Appleton, WI to see them, resulting in 1 am Walmart shopping for something to simply wear the next day and a 10-hour drive home which gave us a 5:30am arrival time back into town. These guys must be pretty amazing or something (check 'um out!)

So while I've already written WAY more than I thought I would, I could write a ton more about what God has done for me this summer and how excited I am about life to come! He has spoken to me through these girls and through Hawk and my life will never be the same! One of these friends of mine commented to me how incredible it was and just by many "random" chances that God brought us all together and that we all just happened to have a majority of the same interests. It's indescribable! Call me crazy but my God works in crazy and amazing ways. More to come!